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"A work on english grammar and composition"

He tried to not only injure but to also ruin the man.
18. The lesson was prodigiously long.
19. The cars will not stop at this station only when the bell rings.
20. He can do it as good as any one can.
21. Most everybody talks so.
22. He hasn't yet gone, I don't believe.
23. He behaved thoughtlessly, recklessly, and carelessly.
24. That 'ere book is readable.
25. I will not go but once.
26. I can't find out neither where the lesson begins nor where it ends.
27. They were nearly dressed alike.
28. The tortured man begged that they would kill him again and again.
29. The fortune was lavishly, profusely, and prodigally spent.
30. I am real glad to see you.
31. We publish all the information, official and otherwise.
LESSON 95.
PREPOSITIONS.
+DEFINITION.--A _Preposition_ is a word that introduces a phrase modifier,
and shows the relation, in sense, of its principal word to the word
modified.+
Composition.
+Direction+.--_We give below a list of the prepositions in common use. Make
short sentences in which each of these shall be aptly used. Use two or
three of them in a single sentence if you wish_:--
Aboard,
about,
above,
across,
after,
against,
along,
amid,
amidst,
among,
amongst,
around,
at,
athwart,
before,
behind,
below,
beneath,
beside,
besides,
between,
betwixt,
beyond,
but,
by,
down,
ere,
for,
from,
in,
into,
of,
on,
over,
past,
round,
since,
through,
throughout,
till,
to,
toward,
towards,
under,
underneath,
until,
unto,
up,
upon,
with,
within,
without.


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